So, do any of you out there remember when I first announced the new Elsanna.fans domain? At the time, we were just two weeks away from going into production on it and all of the associated sites, including this one. That never happened and I can imagine that a lot of you can guess why...
A pesky little coronavirus took over most of the world's attention, followed by a string of real life events that totally pulled my attention away from the fandom. Although Elsanna.fans is up and running, I have done absolutely nothing to promote it or move it forward. While I would like to say that is going to change, I know better. I just don't have the interest, energy or bandwidth to take it to the next level. I just pay the bills and let it all sit - but it's not going anywhere. I have even considered shutting it all down, but...
I'd much rather ask for help and find people to help me keep it alive and move it all forward!
What kind of help? Glad you asked.
Elsanna.fans host three different Archives - Fiction, Art and Comics. Regardless of which site it is, there are two kinds of people that we need:
- Admins - people to manage the sites, the users and curate content.
- Techies - people to support the backend web tools for each site.
In a perfect world, I could use multiple volunteers in each role for each site. They would take on the day-to-day running and improving each site. That would reduce my role to managing the hosting environment, paying the bills and training people on the tools. That I would be happy to do. In a real world that is sorely lacking in flashy magic, my expectations are slightly lower...
If I can get at least one Admin for each site, that would be a great start. It would allow us to actually move into production and focus on content. IF I could find a couple of tech gurus to work with me, then we could actually work on improving the sites.
Based on the Elsanna Reddit group, there are at least 22,000 people in our fandom! I am hoping that from that group, I can find a handful of people that are interested in helping to maintain (and grow) all of the amazing content available to us. If you are one of those people, please reach out to me at katarr@elsanna.fans or look for my post on the Elsanna Reddit Page.
Thanks!